Window shade and curtain fixture.



Patented A r. 8, I902,

E W SCHNEIDER WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE. 7

(Application filed June 1, 1901.)

(No Modei.)

of the shade-roller bracket.

UNTTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST SCHNEIDER, OF BUFFALO, NE\V YORK.

WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN FIXTURE.

SEEQIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 697,023, dated April 8, 1902. Application filed Jnnel, 1901 $erial No. 62,788. (No model.)

To a whom, it Duty concern.-

Be it known that I, Ennsrr W. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 'lVindow Shade and Curtain Fixtures, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates more particularly to the class of brackets for shade-rollers and ourtain-poles which are adjustable to accommodate shade-rollers of different lengths and to permit the curtain-pole to be placed at different distances from the window.

The objects of myinvention are to simplify and cheapen the construction of such brackets, to facilitate their adjustment, and to provide simple means for holding the same firmly in position.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fixture. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the base-plate thereof. Fig. 3 is a similar view Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of the curtain-pole bracket. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the complete fixture. Fig. (i is a transverse vertical section thereof looking toward the curtain-pole holder.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A is the stationary base-plate of the fixture, which is provided at its upper and lower edges with holes a for the passage of screws by which the plate is fastened to the face of a window-frame. The plate is preferably provided with two or more sets of such screwholes, as shown to enable the same to be shifted laterally to any desired position 011 the window-frame and secured in place by utilizing the most suitableor convenient set of holes. To permit the base-plate to be fastened to the inner side of the window-frame, if desired, the plate is provided at its outer end with a flange or, having screw-holes a is the shade-roller bracket,which receives one of the usual roller-spindles and which is laterally adjustable on the base-plate A to suit rollersof different lengths. This bracket I is provided at its inner end with a head I) of T-shaped cross-section arranged at right angles to the bracket and confined in an un dercut slot or socket c,,formed horizontally in the base-plate A. This slot extends from one end of the base-plate nearly to its opposite end. The thick central portion of the head b fits into the slot 0, while its reduced upper and lower portions 1) are closely fitted in the undercut portions of the slot. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the undercut portions of the base-plate above and below the slot 0 are raised to bring the flat rear face of the head I) flush with the back of the base-plate.

(l is a clamping-screw arranged in a screw threaded opening in the front side of the bracket-head I), and d is awasherinterposed between the head of said screw and the face of the base-plate A. This screw securely clamps the bracket 15 to the base-plate, and upon loosening the screw the bracket can be slid laterally on the base-plate. In order to permit the bracket to be adjusted to the extreme outer end of the base-plate slot, the head I) is arranged only on the outer side of the bracket, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

E is an arm or bracket arranged at the outer end of the base-plate A and projecting forwardly from it. This arm is preferably removably attached to the base-plate and for this purpose is provided at its rear end with a head 6, which is connected with the arm by a reduced neck .6". The base-plateis provided in its end portion with a narrow slotor opening f, which is just wide enough to receive the neck e and which is provided at its upper end with an enlargement f of snfficient size to admit the head .6. In attaching the arm to the base-plate its head .8 is passed through the enlargement f, and the arm is then lowered to cause the neck 6 to enter the slot, in which position the head bridges the slot and holds the neck against forward displacement therein. The arm is held against rearward displacement in the. opening of the base-plate by stop-flanges (2 formed on the arm in front of its head e and bearing against the face of the base-plate, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

G is a curtain-pole holder carried by the arm E and projecting forwardly beyond the same. This holder is preferably formed of a single piece of spring-wire and consists of a pair of elastic legs or members g, arranged one above the other and connected at their outer ends by a ring or loop g, which receives and supports one end of a curtain-pole. Each of the legs g is provided near its rear end with an outward bend 9 arranged substantially at right angles thereto, while its offset end portion g extends rearwardly from said bend and is arranged parallel with the body of the leg, as shown in Fig. 5. i As shown in the figure just mentioned, the bends g of IO these legs pass through transverse openings h, formed in the upper and lower portions of the bracket-arm E, and the body portions of the legs and their offset end portions g are arranged on opposite sides of said bracketl5 arm.

vl'iare retaining hooks or lips which are preferably arranged on the inner side of the bracket-arm E, at or near the front end thereof, and which embrace the central portions of the legs g, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 6.

The lips or hooks face each other and are arranged so closely together that the legs g must be sprung toward each other to an abnormal position in order to become disen-.

springing its legs toward each other snffi- 33 ciently to clear the hooks 'L', as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6, and the holder is then swung laterally and inwardly to a position at right angles, ornearly so, to the bracket-arm, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5. In swing- I 40 mg the holder to this position its bends g are withdrawn from the openings h of the bracket-arm, and by the time the holder reaches said dotted position its offset ends 9 stand in line with said openings, permitting 5 them to be withdrawn from the openings.

The detached holder is then adjusted inwardly or outwardly on the bracket-arm by v placing its ends 9 in a different set of holes h, then swinging the holder from the dotted position shown in Fig. 5 nearly to the position shown by full lines in the same figure and in Fig. 1, and finally springing the legs g under the hooks 71. This adjustment can be quickly and conveniently effected. By

this construction the pole-holder is removably and'adjustably secured to the bracketarm without the use of separate attachments,

rendering the fixture exceedingly simple and reducing its cost correspondingly.

It will be observed that the pole-holder when occupying its normal position is held against longitudinal displacement on the bracket-arm in both directions by the bends g of its legs and against lateral displacement in an outward direction by the bracket-arm and in an inward direction by the hooks 2', thereby firmly securing the holder to the bracket-arm. I

I claim as my invention 1. In a window-fixture, the combination of a base-plate provided with a slot which opens at one end'of the plate and having the portions thereof above and below the slot undercut and raised above the plane of the marginal portions of the plate, a laterally-adjustable bracket provided with a head of T-shaped cross-section having a thick central portion fitted in said slot and reduced upper and lower portions arranged on the rear side of the plate and fitted in the raised undercut 8o bracket-openings when the legs are parallel with the bracket and capable of withdrawal from the openings when the legs are turned at an angle to the bracket, and attachments arranged on the bracket in front of said openings and constructed to hold said legs against the bracket, substantially as set forth.

8. In a window-fixture, the combination with an arm or bracket having a pair of openings and provided in front of said openings with a pair of hooks, of a pole-holder consisting of a ring or loop and a pair of elastic legs or branches extending rearwardly therefrom, the rear ends of said legs being offset and 0011- nected with the legs by angular bends which pass through said bracket-openings, and the body portions of said legs being sprung under the hooks of the bracket, substantially as set forth.

4. In a windowfixture, the combination with a base-plate and an arm or bracket projecting therefrom and having several sets of openings arranged at different distances from the base-plate and provided in front of the series of openings with a pair of hooks, of an adjustable pole-holder consisting of a ring or loop and a pair of elastic legs carrying the same, the rear ends of said legs being offset parallel with the legs and connected therewith by angular bends which pass through a set of said bracket-openings, and the central portions of said legs being sprung under the books of the bracket, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 28th day ofMay,190l.

ERNST W. SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

THEO. -L. POPP, CARL F. GEYER.

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